Re: [Tracker] About "Linux Kernel file notification" support

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 12:13 +0200, Filippo Pappalardo wrote:
> Jamie, in the past you suggested the possibility to just avoid to do the
> scanning of dirs at start up, and I thought it was a good enough idea.
>
> This just because one can assume that it's simply unnecessary to re-scan
> everything each time, especially in a system where Tracker is
> automatically launched at each login or otherwise consistently used.
>
> You proposed to completely avoid the scan, like Spotlight does in OSX
> (please correct me if I'm wrong). Another possible solution could be to
> just delay it and make it more "gentle" on the resources (CPU/HD/RAM).
> I'd like to know your thoughts and/or plans on this.

 we do currently delay dir scan for 5 secs at startup so as not to slow
boot time